Archives for 2013

What a great year we’ve had! This year, our baby girl Isla became a full-time walker and talker. We celebrated the marriage of our good friends Doug and Rachel in Austin in February and made the decision that 2013 was our year to return to Texas. Kellen and I celebrated our 3rd anniversary by gettingRead More

The holidays are always kind of a challenge in our home. Kellen’s parents live on the Oregon Coast and most of my family lives in the Texas Piney Woods. Every holiday season, that means we make 2 pilgrimages to remote backwoods locales to spend time with our loved ones. We alternate which family we spendRead More

We are taking a break from unpacking and organizing our new home to spend a few days up north with my family, so I will be on a blogging hiatus probably until 2014. I hope you all have a warm and wonderful Christmas and a blessing-filled New Year!

The last several days have been a little bit wild in our house. On Saturday, my in-laws flew in from Oregon for a 4-day visit. On Sunday, we drove them out to my parents’ farm an hour of Austin so they could see the progress on the place. 3 years ago, my parents purchased landRead More

We’re almost home owners! We made it through pre-qualification for a loan and our gorgeous house passed the inspection and appraisal with no issues at all. We’ve been through underwriting and now all that remains is to close on the house, which fingers crossed will happen next Tuesday without any issues. I’m so excited aboutRead More

Over at my other blog, I kept a running list of all the things I was thankful for during the month of November. I thought I’d compile them and keep them as a reminder of what a lucky lady I am. November 1: Today I’m thankful for my Mirena IUD. I haven’t had a periodRead More

I’m not a very crafty person. I get on Pinterest and start perusing the crafts section and pretty quickly feel completely out of my depth. Somehow, my hands just don’t cooperate with my brain, and I lack the patience and thoroughness–with crafts, anyhow–to get the details just right. Most of my crafts end up inRead More